eager - Story 37259 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Her breath quickened as she approached the computer. Months of work, all culminating in this single moment. She’d dreamed of this. A smile played on her lips as she opened the webpage.

Her body stiffened. The article was there, the words she'd crafted. But the credit was given to someone else. She felt a peculiar, almost violent twist in her gut. The blood rushed in her ears.

She stood abruptly, pacing the small space. She had to do something, immediately. Time was of the essence. Her fists clenched. This was not going to be ignored.

Emotion: eager

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 2.98 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.02

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion eager. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 eager stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the eager emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the eager vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.659
`excitedly`	0.436
`!`	0.389
`!"`	0.386
`ecstatic`	0.383

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.816
`ness`	-0.441
`😞`	-0.387
`L`	-0.379
`P`	-0.376